KAAPA Ethanol exceeding dreams of founders

By Guest on Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Kearney area producers form alliance 22 years ago, recently adding Aurora plant to statewide economic impact

Steam rises from the KAAPA ethanol plant west of Minden on a cold cloudy winter day. Its original production capacity of 40 million gallons a year had doubled by March 2016.
Steam rises from the KAAPA ethanol plant west of Minden on a cold cloudy winter day. Its original production capacity of 40 million gallons a year had doubled by March 2016.

Editor’s note: This is the first of two installments involving coverage of KAAPA Co-op, a Kearney-area company which in February completed an agreement to operate the ethanol plant in Aurora.


by Lori Potter -- Minden Courier

MINDEN -- South-central Nebraska farmers who formed the KAAPA (Kearney Area Ag Producers Alliance) Co-op more than 20 years ago had big dreams about building an ethanol plant th…